Thunder – he’s back to that name now, CMLL is disorganized – appeared before the crowd this week. He’s using the obvious choice of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck as his music. He’s headed to Arena Coliseo Guadalajara on 02/05. It sounded like he was announced for next Friday’s Arena Mexico card last night, but he’s not on the lineup.

Hijo del Santo and others took part in cutting the ribbon for a new restaurant in Los Angeles, as part of promotion for an FMLL show today. (FMLL still hasn’t changed the poster that has 40 different guys on it, so no idea who’s

CMLL said this is the first phase of the Reyes del Aire; we’re assuming that to mean it’s two weeks of ciberneticos and a final. (CMLL has enough people to do 3 or 4 weeks, but they probably aren’t.) The largest ever field for this tournament means top guys who were kept out of this are back: Sombra hasn’t been in this tournament since 2008 and Volador, who figures to be in next week’s group, hasn’t been in since 2009. That kind of seems like the most likely final, though I think Titan has a decent shot. We can probably pencil in Namajague & Stuka as the double elimination.